Burt Reynolds(I)

Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in TV westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970/1980s popular culture as a male sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine) and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a wisecracking, Southern-type "good olé' boy." Burton ... See full bio »

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1975
At Long Last Love
(performer: "Lets Misbehave", "Well Did You Evah!", "Poor Young Millionaire", "Just One Of Those Things", "A Picture Of Me Without You", "It's De-Lovely", "Friendship", "You're The Top", "At Long Last Love")

1991
The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
(TV Special)
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series
/ Presenter: Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series & Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

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[after he heard that Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was the favorite film of director Alfred Hitchcock] I have had people who were very intellectual and my heroes, that have quietly said to me, "I loved 'Smokey and the Bandit'!" And I said, "It's alright because so did 150 million other people!" I'm thrilled that Mr. Hitchcock felt that way and I convey to his daughter that, needless to say, he was... See more
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Attended Elizabeth Taylor's "Commitment to Life" fund-raiser for AIDS research on 19 September 1985, where Burt Lancaster read Rock Hudson's statement announcing he had been diagnosed with AIDS. At one point Reynolds was booed when he read a telegram of support from President Ronald Reagan. Reynolds summed up the frustration of the lack of AIDS awareness when he angrily said, "If this were a ... See more
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